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Maria Edgeworth
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Standard Name: Edgeworth, Maria
Birth Name: Maria Edgeworth
Pseudonym: M. E.
Pseudonym: M. R. I. A.
ME
wrote, during the late eighteenth century and especially the early nineteenth century, long and short fiction for adults and children, as well as works about the theory and practice of pedagogy. Her reputation as an Irish writer, and as the inventor of the regional novel, has never waned; it was long before she became outmoded as a children's writer; her interest as a feminist writer is finally being explored.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Eva Figes | EF
wrote introductions to Maria Edgeworth
's Belinda and Patronage for the Pandora Press
's Mothers of the Novel series, both publiahed in 1986. She also contributed an article to Colette, 1991, a volume... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Inchbald | EI
, or others involved, must have declined to participate in the Longman
's project reported by Catherine Hutton
on 13 June 1816, for a women's periodical intended to bear the names of Inchbald, Barbauld |
| Textual Production | Amelia Opie | This is not to be confused with an anoymous publication bearing the same title, also in three volumes, published by Henry Colburn
in 1810 as (by implication) a sequel to Maria Edgeworth
's Tales of... |
| Textual Production | Naomi Royde-Smith | In an Author's NoteNRS
tenders her thanks to the shades of Miss Austen, Miss Burney
, Miss Edgeworth
, Mrs Sherwood
and Mr. W. M. Thackeray for the life-long pleasure they have given her... |
| Textual Production | Amelia Opie | The copy now in the library at Chawton Houe
bears an inscription from the author to her long-time friend Charles Edgeworth
(half-brother of Maria
). An edition published at Boston in 1839 was entitled A... |
| Textual Production | Emily Lawless | EL
published her life of Maria Edgeworth (she dated her brief preface this month). “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. Lawless, Emily. Maria Edgeworth. Macmillan, 1904. prelims |
| Textual Production | E. Nesbit | The sympathetic Jewish pawnbroker in this book may signify a change of heart in EN
(who had drawn prejudiced portraits of Jews before and who was later to depict another wise and admirable Jew) comparable... |
| Textual Production | Frances Jacson | Again, many reference sources attribute this novel to Alethea Lewis
, though Lewis's biographer Shippen doubted the ascription. The work was ascribed to Jacson firstly by Maria Edgeworth
in 1818, and later by Joan Percy |
| Textual Production | Maggie Gee | MG
was chosen for publication in the Cambridge University
magazine Granta in 1983, and has contributed to The Guardian, New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, Mslexia, the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday... |
| Textual Production | Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin | ENC
edited Maria Edgeworth
's Belinda (not one of Edgeworth's Irish but one of her English novels) for Everyman's Library. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
| Textual Production | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
's A Book of Sibyls considered the lives and works of Anna Letitia Barbauld
, Maria Edgeworth
, Amelia Opie
, and Jane Austen
. Callow, Steven D. “A Biographical Sketch of Lady Anne Thackeray Ritchie”. Virginia Woolf Quarterly, Vol. 2 , 1980, pp. 285-7. 289 |
| Textual Production | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
wrote a memorial preface to Poems and Music by Anne Evans
in 1880. In 1892 she drew on her father
's ideas for a largely anecdotalintroduction to Elizabeth Gaskell
's Cranford. Callow, Steven D. “A Biographical Sketch of Lady Anne Thackeray Ritchie”. Virginia Woolf Quarterly, Vol. 2 , 1980, pp. 285-7. 293 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Kate O'Brien | KOB
refers to women writers here and there in her text—casually to Daisy Ashford
and Nancy Mitford
, admiringly to Maria Edgeworth
and Lady Gregory
(the latter admittedly for her life rather than her writings)—and... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | Here she expounds her method of teaching her grandchildren [or step-grandchildren] through play, and features acute critical comment on female writers for children. In particular, she makes detailed, intelligent criticism of Maria Edgeworth
's children's... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Rigby | The letters touch on subjects usual to travel narratives: history (including military), art, folklore, climate, social customs, cuisine, and geography. On the subject of Russian literature, she notes how many English novels are translated into... |
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